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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

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But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. The five key metrics to judge your subscription model’s success are: Churn and churn rate.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Some private equity funds are quantifying their exit strategy in a concerted way. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. Then referral rates and opt-out rates. How many people are going to leave?